Eccleston Mere

A quiet evening at the mere, the only bird highlight was a Kingfisher and a Great spotted Woodpecker feeding young.


Umbellifers are a very diverse family of plants. This is Pignut Conopodium majus, and it is perhaps the most dainty, growing to a height of about 15cm. Other members of the family are carrot, parsley, hemlock, celery and giant hogweed, which can grow to 5m tall and has flowers up to 50cm across! Pignut is so called because it has an edible tuberous root.